Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 515

The soldiers of Cao Ying outside Fanyang City mutinied and beheaded generals Lu Fan and Wang Ji, and the rest of the generals, officers and soldiers surrendered.

All this happened so quickly that the people in the city could barely react, and the camp over there had already opened the gate by itself.

Huan Fan and Liu Ye stared blankly at this scene, looking at each other, everyone could see the panic in each other's eyes.

Because in their eyes, a large number of Wei soldiers who had surrendered in the distance were slowly coming with the Han army.

You can tell with your toes that the other party is planning to use these Wei soldiers to persuade the people in the city to surrender.

"No, if you let them come over, the morale of the soldiers will definitely be lost!"

"You have to figure out a way."

"How to do?"

"The only way now is to go out of the city and fight."

"Isn't going out of the city also death?"

"No way, I can only give it a go."

Liu Ye and Huan Fan quickly exchanged opinions.

It is useless to defend in this situation. Once the Wei army outside comes to persuade them to surrender, the Wei army in the city will probably choose to surrender when they see that they have already set an example.

In that case, the entire Fanyang would fall, and even Wei County, where Xia Houyuan was located, would be isolated and helpless.

So the only way is to go out of the city and fight.

But going out of the city for a decisive battle is probably a dead end, or a narrow escape, but they have no other way, they can only do so.

Immediately Liu Ye and Huan Fan were ready to gather soldiers and open the city gate to go out.

But at this moment, there was a commotion under the city tower, followed by various scolding, yelling, and the exchange of weapons. When Liu Ye and Huan Fan went to check with their personal guards, a group of Wei soldiers appeared on the stairs below the city.

These soldiers defeated the soldiers in the city cave. Some people were already opening the city gate, and some people were rushing upwards. The person in the front was called Sun Ci, who was a Sima in the Wei army.

"Brothers, there is still a way to survive by surrendering to the Han army. Only then can we go home to meet our parents, capture Liu Ye and Huan Fan alive, and follow me to kill them!"

"Kill!"

"Capture Liu Ye and Huan Fan alive!"

There were at least seven or eight hundred soldiers of the Wei army screaming and rushing up the tower, and the crowd of soldiers behind them almost filled the street.

The city wall steps on both sides of the city gate were crowded with tens of hundreds of people, and the shining blade was still stained with blood.

"not good!"

Liu Ye and Huan Fan just arrived when they saw this scene. They were taken aback. They hurriedly ran to the rear, and in a panic ordered their guards to gather the Wei soldiers who had been defending on the city wall to prepare for defense.

However, Sun Ci, who was called Jun Sima, was actually an undercover agent, or could not be considered an undercover agent, but a Cao Wei mid-level officer who had just been instigated by the Han army recently.

This person was the army Sima who had gone back to Nanleting to visit his relatives before, and the information about the Wei army that Guan Yu learned at Nanleting came from him.

Lu Xun decided to respond to the enemy with an offensive strategy, and personally found his family. Before Guan Ping's army arrived, he secretly asked Sun Ci's father to go to Fanyang in the name of visiting his son, and successfully instigated him.

It stands to reason that the army is strictly controlled, and it is not so easy for family members to meet.

But first of all, Sun Ci was a mid-level military officer, with a high status and good popularity, so everyone gave him a little bit of disrespect.Second, now that Cao Wei's army is close to being scattered, the control has long been less strict than before.

So under the persuasion of Sun Ci's father, Sun Ci finally agreed to the uprising.

Now that the Wei army outside the city had surrendered, Sun Ci saw that the time had come, and the soldiers of the Wei army in the city would definitely be demoralized because of the surrender of the soldiers outside the city. In order to prevent Liu Ye and Huan Fan from deciding to go out of the city to fight to the death, he immediately mobilized his soldiers to arrest them.

Liu Ye and Huan Fan were caught off guard and ran towards the city wall.

But Sun Ci chased and shouted with his men and horses, telling everyone in the city that the Wei army outside the city had surrendered, and the only way to survive was to capture Liu Ye and Huan Fan alive, and they must not let them escape.

And not only he shouted alone, but also his subordinates shouted the same way, the voice was very loud, causing hundreds of thousands of Wei Jun to be at a loss.

Some people wanted to loyally defend the two, while others wanted to take the opportunity to rebel. Most of them were not helping each other.

For a while, the Wei army in Fanyang City was in chaos.

Taking advantage of this time, Sun Ci's soldiers had already opened the east city gate, and Guan Ping's army outside the city entered the city smoothly without any hindrance on the city wall. In less than two quarters of an hour, they controlled the situation. Liu Ye and Huan Fan were captured alive by Sun Ci and dedicated to Guan Ping within a short time of two quarters of an hour.

"past!"

At this moment, the defense above the city wall has been taken over by the Han army. Behind Guan Ping, there are Han soldiers patrolling. The city is still in a state of turmoil. A large number of Han troops have entered the city to take prisoners and have wiped out the last remaining resistance forces.

Sun Ci pushed Liu Ye and Huan Fan, who had already been tied up by Wuhua Da, over. The two of them were disheveled and embarrassed. After being pushed in front of Guan Ping, they lowered their heads and remained silent.

Guan Ping glanced at the two, and said with a sneer, "You were once Han officials, and your ancestors lived on Han's salary, but now you have abandoned your ancestors, knelt at the feet of Cao Wei, and helped the tyrants to do evil. You really are not as good as animals."

"Ah."

Huan Fan sneered and said: "Now you are in great power, what you say is right, but the Han Dynasty has been four hundred years old, so what's wrong with changing the destiny?"

Guan Ping pointed to Huan Fan and said, "Yagong passed on the "Shangshu" to his family, ruled the loyal emperor and loved the country, but you have such an unworthy descendant. I heard that General Hushi intends to rewrite the history after the world is settled in the future. He wants to list a copy of "The Biography of the Two Officials and Thieves". I think the two of you should be on the list."

Liu Ye's face changed drastically, and he said, "Shen Chen can't do this, why can he decide other people's lives?"

Guan Ping laughed and said, "Are you afraid? As a descendant of the Han family, when you don't want to serve the country but instead help the rebels, why didn't you expect that you will have today? Don't worry, His Majesty has re-established the Taimiao in the south, divided the temples of Gaozu and Shizu, and will rebuild the clan genealogy in the future. If you say it, you will probably not be named Liu in the future."

Liu Ye stood there blankly, feeling chills all over his body.

If it is said that "The Legend of the Two Officials and Thieves" is only a stigma in the future, then expulsion from the clan will completely make this person have no home even after death.

In the Han Dynasty, people believed in gods and ancestors, especially ancestors had a very high status in people's minds. The cohesion of a clan was not only because of the same surname and the same origin, but also the same sense of honor and pride, and being proud of the ancestors.

Even Cao Cao's last words before his death said that he would have a spirit after death, and he would be ashamed of Cao Ang, so you can know people's beliefs at that time.

So when Liu Ye heard Guan Ping's words, he knew that once Liu Chan really rebuilt the clan's genealogy, expelled him from the clan, and even forcibly changed his surname to humiliate him, then his descendants would probably be ashamed because of him as an ancestor.

This is the so-called harm to future generations!

Thinking of this, Liu Ye panicked and shouted, "How could you treat me like this? How could you treat me like this? Are you going to change the surname bestowed by my ancestors in vain?"

Guan Ping waved his hand, motioning for the soldiers to pull them away, and said with a sneer, "When you followed Cao Cao and killed your family name Liu, why didn't you remember that your surname was also Liu? Anyway, you don't even know your own surname, so why should you care about it?"

"You can't wait to die!"

Liu Ye yelled, but the soldiers didn't listen to him anymore, and his voice became smaller and smaller. Some soldiers even punched him in the face and dragged him away because he thought he was noisy.

Guan Ping looked at Liu Yehuanfan, Wu Zhou, Yang Ke and other Cao Wei generals who were taken away. He didn't say anything to persuade them to surrender, and he didn't promise them any intention of surrendering. He watched them quietly being taken away by the soldiers.

Because it is meaningless for the big man to persuade or not to surrender, and whether to surrender or not.

The big men are in full swing, they don't need those so-called talents anymore, Cao Wei's power is gone, even if Han Xin is white, it's useless, let alone these people?

Guan Ping just ordered the soldiers to send Liu Ye, Huan Fan and the captured Cao Wei generals to Guan Yu's side, while he occupied Fanyang City.

Fanyang City is not only the right rib of Wei County, but also not far behind, less than a hundred kilometers away, is Yecheng, the capital of Cao Wei. Once Fanyang is opened up, there will basically be no city obstacles behind.

Soon Guan Ping cleaned up the city, captured the surrendered Wei army, imprisoned them in the city, and then sent someone to Guan Yu to inform his father that the plan had been successfully completed.

But when Guan Ping succeeded in seizing Fanyang with an offensive strategy, Liao Hua, who denounced Qiu, encountered some problems.

It turned out that Hu Zhi and Jiang Ji were not stationed in the city of Chuqiu, but by the Qingshui River, about tens of miles southeast of Chuqiu. There is a bridge connecting Qingshui to the west at this location.

Xia Houyuan sent people here, first to support, and second, if the battle is unfavorable, they can also retreat to the hinterland of Wei County and block the pursuit by burning bridges.

And their camps are not the conventional camps with horns for each other, but they are all gathered together, and their strength is relatively concentrated.

In this way, it will be difficult for Liao Hua to defeat them one by one like Guan Ping, and it will not be easy to start.

However, if the strategy of attacking the heart can be successfully implemented, then there is no need to break through one camp first like Guan Ping, and then use the internal force to break through another city, and can directly take down all the Wei troops.

As for how to do it, Liao Hua didn't think about it.

At the same time, after the arrival of the Han army, Hu Zhi and Jiang Ji were also watching the Han army building the camp in the distance above the camp.

"The enemy is coming fiercely, how should we deal with it?"

Hu Zhi looked melancholy. They only had more than 1 people on hand, and their morale was low. Facing the 2 elite Han army on the opposite side, it was really impossible to fight against the enemy.

Jiang Ji said in a deep voice: "The only thing we can do now is to be on the defensive. I am worried that the morale of the soldiers is too low. What if the enemy uses an offensive strategy?"

"A trick to attack the heart? How do you say it?"

Hu asked.

Jiang Ji said: "If I were the enemy, I would write some persuading letters and send them to the camp, which would surely break the morale of the army."

"How can this be good?"

Hu Zhi turned his head and looked at the soldiers behind the wall of the village.

The wall of Wei Junzhai was built against the bridge, and the bridge was used as the base of defense to prepare for the subsequent retreat of Xia Houyuan's main force.

The construction of the camp took the form of an overall large camp with several small camps scattered in it. A large number of Wei soldiers were not only concentrated on the walls of the two sides of the camp, but also gathered in the direction of the main entrance of the wall.

I saw the soldiers squatting scatteredly on the ground. Although the officers sometimes ordered them to stand up and line up, even when they stood up, they all seemed listless, without much energy, and their morale was low to the bottom.

Cao Wei's method of controlling soldiers is very simple, that is, to adopt the hostage system, which is the famous "Soldier Death Law".If desertion occurs, family members will be punished, and immediate family members will be killed.

However, Cao Wei is almost being beaten to the capital now, and it is difficult for the upper echelons of Cao Wei to control the families of soldiers in the hinterland. Therefore, the morale and fighting spirit of the soldiers have basically been wiped out.

Hu asked Jiang Ji what to do, but Jiang Ji was actually very difficult to do.

In the final analysis, scheming is actually a matter of the morale of the army. If the morale of the army is united and the morale is high, the scheming will not succeed.

But now, how to solve the morale problem?

Jiang Ji pondered for a long time before he said: "The morale of the soldiers is not high now. It may be difficult to rely solely on boosting morale. We must find a way to win the battle."

"How can we win?"

Hu asked.

Jiang Ji glanced around, pointed to the middle of one of the camps and said, "If the Han army attacks by force, we will deliberately put them in to lure the enemy in, and then use the last bit of stored fish oil to ignite the camp, maybe we can win."

"Ah."

Hu Zhi felt that Jiang Ji's method was good, so he nodded in response.

After that, Hu Zhi and Jiang Ji let the soldiers have a good rest, and continued to give speeches in each camp to boost morale and adjust the morale of the army.

More than ten days later, almost on the day when Guan Ping captured Fanyang, Liao Hua launched an attack at the same time.

According to the original deployment, the Han army approached the camp, ready to start shooting arrows into the camp.

However, under the command of Hu Zhi and Jiang Ji, the Wei army abandoned the front battalion and released the outer battalion to lure the Han army to attack.

At that time, Liao Hua didn't think of luring the enemy to go deep. He thought that if he shot an arrow into the Wei camp, the generals of the Wei army would definitely find the paper on the arrow immediately. If they confiscated it, wouldn't the plan fail?
So he thought that since the enemy took the initiative to retreat, it would be better to simply capture the Wei camp and continue to shoot arrows to break the enemy's morale. In addition, the Han army has already entered the camp, wouldn't it be possible to win a big victory?

So he ordered an attack.

Soon the Han army broke through the unguarded gate of the village and rushed into the front camp.

As a result, before the Han army shot arrows at the camp behind, raging flames ignited around, and then a large number of crossbows and arrows shot over from the surrounding camp.

"withdraw!"

Liao Hua found out that he was in ambush and quickly ordered to withdraw his troops.

Fortunately, the Han army did not come to storm the camp, but came to shoot arrows, so they all held up their shields and withdrew in an orderly manner, only hundreds of people were killed or injured.

And because Wei Jun was a large camp with many small camps in it, only this one was burned, and it didn't cause much impact.

After the Han army withdrew, the Wei army quickly extinguished the fire, and there were loud cheers in the camp.

Although it only repelled a small-scale attack by the Han army, it also greatly boosted the low morale of the Wei army.

Especially under the propaganda of Hu Zhi and Jiang Ji, many Wei Jun who had not participated in the war thought it was a big victory, so their morale gradually improved.

And this undoubtedly gave a signal to Liao Hua on the attacking side, that is, Wei Jun on Qiuqiu's side is not easy to deal with.

(End of this chapter)